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13 words match “ACCOST”

ACCOST v. 5 definitions
de; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. [Obs.] "So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea." Fuller.
ACCOSTABLE a.
Approachable; affable. [R.] Hawthorne.
ACCOSTED a.
Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side.
ABORD n. 2 definitions
Manner of approaching or accosting; address. Chesterfield.
ACCOAST v.
To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost. [Obs.] Whether high towering or accosting low. Spenser.
ADDRESS v.
spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to; to accost. Are not your orders to address the senate Addison. The representatives of the nation addressed the king. Swift.
BOARD v.
To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo. [Obs.] I will board her, though she chide as loud As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack. Shak.
GREET v. 2 definitions
ddress with salutations or expressions of kind wishes; to salute; to hail; to welcome; to accost with friendship; to pay respects or compliments to, either personally or through the intervention of another, or by writing or token. My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you. Shak.
HAIL v.
To call loudly to, or after; to accost; to salute; to address.
JACK KETCH n.
re executed; from whence we have Jack Ketch. Lloyd's MS., British Museum. [Monmouth] then accosted John Ketch, the executioner, a wretch who had butchered many brave and noble victims, and whose name has, during a century and a half, been vulgarly given to all who have succeeded him in his odious office. Macaulay.…
MALADDRESS n.
Bad address; an awkward, tactless, or offensive way of accosting one or talking with one. W. D. Howells.
MATURE a.
its kind; full-grown; ripe. Now is love mature in ear. Tennison. How shall I meet, or how accost, the sage, Unskilled in speech, nor yet mature of age Pope.
SPEAK v.
To address; to accost; to speak to. [He will] thee in hope; he will speak thee fair. Ecclus. xiii. 6. each village senior paused to scan And speak the lovely caravan. Emerson. To speak a ship (Naut.), to hail and speak to her captain or commander.